Got a new brief to produce an ebook, the idea is that we stick to a children's story so there is potential for entering the Macmillan prize with the end product. After much dithering about stories, I decided it was definitely best to use a story that already exists rather than try and create a narrative - as we had to last year, very unsuccessfully. Stephy told me about a story called 'The Mitten', its a traditional Ukrainian folk tale,about a mitten, that all kinds of forest animals clamber in to shelter, with various interpretations and variations. The version I found was really lovely, and has amazing language, with words like HULLO! And the animals in the book have really visual names, like Howly Prowly Wolf, Snout Rout Boar and Munch Crunch Mouse. However there are some flaws in the narrative, like how on earth do they all fit in the mitten! After a tutorial with Johnny, he suggested that it belong to a giant who has lost it, and I think this works much better. Another problem was the ending, in the traditional version, a hunter comes by and shoots the mitten, in another the bear causes the mouse to sneeze and the mitten shatters. I thought about it for a while and did some more dithering, but decided that perhaps a Boy is walking in the forest and comes across what would be quite a scary sight, a GIANT mitten with a multitude of legs, and being inquisitive he pokes and prods the "monster", when out of the distance getting louder is sound of very large footsteps, immediately he is just as scared as the animals inside the mitten and they let him in to stay safe.
Im really looking forward to getting stuck into this one, i must STORYBOARD. I'm thinking green sugar paper, brown, rust, baby blue, newspaper, graph paper and pencil crayons!!
This is just a quick forest based thing I did, I quite like it.
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